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Odin2005

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1. It's because the "history" taught in schools is sanitized and boring.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:16 AM
Dec 2012

Anything controversial or "un-patriotic" is left out, and the class becomes about remembering dates and reinforcing national patriotic myths.

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